"Quartz = me in shadowy corners."
I think that's true of many zines and personal writing since often what one chooses to write about is the dark stuff, and even though personal zines are autobiographical they may depict just one aspect or corner of one's psyche.

"Everything I ever wanted to know has been lost in the haze of things I found out." No. 4

In a review of Charlie's Angels in no. 5, "Still, I can't help feeling that one of these days Cameron Diaz's smile is going to fall right off her face, grow legs and acquire a consciousness." and from the New Zealand fact page, "3. I've never yet met anyone who fucked a sheep."

"I have this problem where I just can't get past issue #1 of a zine. It's sort of like my thing with journal writing, how I can only get through about half of the journal until I want to begin another one, start from fresh."